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Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Bars! These gooey brownies melt in your mouth with every bite. Easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Oh fall how I love you, but holly wow is it ever getting harder and harder to get out of bed early during the week. It’s cold. It’s dark. I just wanna stay in bed snuggled in my warm comforter until noon. Then crawl out of bed and eat everything pumpkin.
Speaking of pumpkin, my Pumpkin Almond Chocolate Muffins were featured on Lifehack last week. I was so excited when I saw my recipe lined up as #3 with some of the best food bloggers around. Strange thing is if I hadn’t been injured this year I probably wouldn’t have gotten into food blogging.
Although food was part of what I always intended to share on my blog, it certainly wasn’t my intention for food to become such a big part of what my blog would become known for. Crazy how things happen.
To celebrate my pumpkin muffin feature, I wanted to share another awesome pumpkin recipe treat with you guys today. I actually wasn’t planning to post this one until later this month for Thanksgiving, but they’re just too good not to share now.
I made these a few weeks ago for a potluck at work and they were a big hit. OMG..there were so many unhealthy treats. An entire conference room was filled with sweets. Most of them were store bought and not homemade.
Even yours truly had too much of the good stuff and I should’ve known better. Until that day I’d been sweets free for over a month. It was days before my birthday so I thought there would be no harm in having a few. Only one problem.
I didn’t eat the healthy treats I brought. Granted they’re all still treats at the end of the day, but at least I know what ingredients are in mine and how my body reacts to them. But I got sucked in by carrot cake and a macadamia nut cookie. I can never say no to carrot cake. Plus I already sampled my goodies at home. No harm in venturing out, right?
Was I ever wrong about that. A few hours later my stomach started doing flip flops. The problem is once you stop eating things with refined sugar your system has no idea what to do with it when you put it in your body. Mine freaked out big time and I didn’t feel good that whole night.
If anything, the experience made me realize how much better I’ve been feeling eating real, whole food and keeping my refined sugar intake low. One of these days I will get around to sharing more about my eating whole experience. I learned a lot about what my body’s needs are.
This morning I’m off to swim then getting labs done before heading to the office. My foot doctor (who I’m divorcing after this) ordered labs for arthritic things: uric acid, ANA complete, rheumatoid factor and sed rate. Last week he was supposed to give me a steroid injection, but that didn’t happen. He ordered oral steroids which I’m conflicted about taking. I’ll explain more later in the week. Stay tuned….
Pumpkin Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 egg white
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 cup zero calorie sugar, like Truvia, Monkfruit, or sugar of choice
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour
- 1/2 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips, or dairy free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 F. Prepare a 9X9 baking pan or prepare a glass dish with a little cooking spray or melted coconut oil.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk the egg, pumpkin and coconut sugar together until smooth. Then stir in the remaining ingredients until smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and smooth into an even layer. Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cool 15 minutes in the pan before removing and cutting into bars. Store the bars in the refrigerator up to 10 days.
Notes
- My Amazon shop has more products similar to those used for this recipe and that I recommend to my nutrition clients.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Megan,
What a fabulous treat, Bars and Muffins with all that chocolate and pumpkin! Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing this awesome post with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
These look delicious I can’t wait to try them!!
thank you!
Oooh yum! Great snack! If only steve lived chocolatey things! I can make these for myself for when he is gone 😛 I guess this shows you should trust your gut when it comes to eating what you know your body can handle! Thanks for joining us for Meatless monday, would you be able to do me a favor next time and add the button to your post? Thank you so much! Cant wait to see what you bring next time 🙂
I find it encouraging when food I used to eat makes me feel yuck after… means my eating habits are actually changing, albeit slowly.
Pinning this for soon! Thank you!
Those muffins look delish!! I hope your ankle is feeling better! I sent you an email FYI–just making sure you got it!
Have a great week girlie!
Yes I got it & you’re so sweet! I will respond later in the week.
YUM!! I want one!! Seriously, these look amazingly delicious! …and they’re Paleo?? Talk about a double win! Great recipe girly! 🙂 Lovely blog as well!!
Thank you for the sweet compliment!
I just love all your recipes! They always look so great and seem so easy to make.
Thanks that compliment made my day!
Yum! These sound delicious! I had some pudding pie that had regular pudding and whipped cream this weekend that I NEVER eat with my paleo lifestyle. I felt pretty sick that evening and still the next day. It was good though! Although a little too sweet….
I get it. I remind myself of that sick feeling when I think I want something.
These look great! I never thought I would be a food blogger either-you never know! thanks for linking up with us today hope you will check out our recipes too!!
Thank you! Wish I had more time today to check out everyone’s deliciousness!
These would be perfect to pack in Joshua’s lunches everyday. I can no longer eat ice cream (aside from soft serve) because it gives me such an upset stomach.
I’m sorry to hear that. Hopefully it’s just temporary?